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‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Moved To March 2013 For 3D Conversion By Germain Lussier/May 23, 2012 1:37 pm EST Things were going so well for G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Fans were responding really well to the trailers, director Jon Chu was talking up how it’s the movie he really wanted to see as a G.I. Joe fan, the release date was approaching and everyone was excited. Paramount has now decided to forgo that positive buzz and bump the film back nine months, from June 29 to March 29, so it can be converted to 3D....

‘Hope Springs’ Trailer - Meryl Streep And Tommy Lee Jones Turn To A Former 40-Year-Old Virgin For Sex Advice By Angie Han/April 25, 2012 4:30 pm EST Steve Carell’s first really big starring role came in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, but he’s playing a man much more experienced in matters of the heart and body for the new Hope Springs (formerly titled Great Hope Springs). As a respected relationship therapist, he dishes advice to a couple (Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones) growing bored of their decades-long marriage....

‘Killing Them Softly’ Trailer: The Splendid Reunion Of Andrew Dominik And Brad Pitt By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2012 7:30 am EST Here’s the trailer for Andrew Dominik’s new film, Killing Them Softly. We’ve been waiting to see more footage from this one, especially after the tease provided by the one previously released clip. The trailer shows two dumbasses (Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn) robbing a mob card game run by Ray Liotta, and how Richard Jenkins calls in a quiet enforcer, played by Brad Pitt, to track them down....

‘The American’ Director Anton Corbijn To Only Make One More Film? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2010 6:00 am EST Is Anton Corbijn already done with filmmaking just as he’s getting warmed up? His debut feature, Control, was a great start, and then The American turned out to be both a satisfying art-house thriller slash character study and a weird out of left field financial success. OK, it didn’t rake in fifty million, but it won its first weekend, and in today’s climate that counts for a lot....

‘The Dark Tower’ Stays At Universal With Smaller Budget, Schedule Pushed Back By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2011 3:05 pm EST Universal won’t pass on the massive Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman adaptation of Stephen King’s series The Dark Tower, but the studio is making some changes before it writes a check. We recently heard that the project, which is mean to come to life as three feature films and a couple of TV arcs, might be shelved at Universal and offered up to other studio homes....

‘X-Men: First Class’ Director Matthew Vaughn Options ‘Lexicon’ As New Directorial Project By Russ Fischer/May 31, 2012 7:00 am EST Is Matthew Vaughn moving back away from four-color properties? Once Guy Ritchie’s producer, Vaughn debuted as a director with Layer Cake, pretty much out-Ritchie-ing his former filmmaking partner in the process, and then moved on to a group of comic-book based films: Stardust, Kick-Ass, and X-Men: First Class. Vaughn is signed for another X-Men movie and is producing the Kick-Ass sequel, but he’s also developing other films....

Adam Shankman Sets His Sights On Anne Hathaway For ‘Rock Of Ages’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2011 1:30 pm EST Briefly: Adam Shankman has finally got Tom Cruise locked for the film version of Rock of Ages, and now he’s turning to other open roles. Having Tom Cruise likely gives him a bit more power, so he is reportedly looking at Anne Hathaway to play a journalist who is planning a hit piece on rocker Stacee Jax, to be played by Mr....

AMC Renews ‘Breaking Bad’ For 16-Episode Final Season By Angie Han/Aug. 15, 2011 9:30 am EST As AMC continues to deal with the fallout from its firing of The Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont, it’s managed to resolve another one of its notoriously tense negotiations. News comes today that the network has renewed Breaking Bad for another 16-episode season, which will be the series’ fifth and last. The deal comes at the end of a long, unhappy public battle between Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and the network; at one point, Gilligan and his team even began shopping the series to other networks....

Ang Lee’s Unused ‘Hulk’ Robot By Germain Lussier/Jan. 11, 2011 4:00 pm EST Before eventual Oscar-winning director Ang Lee decided on going full CGI for his 2003 superhero film Hulk, the production experimented with a fully animatronic version of the character. How do we know? Steve Johnson, of course. The special effects master who has been blowing the doors off superhero pre-production is back again. This time, though, he has more than photos....

Animator Of Unofficial ‘Tintin’ Credits Invited To Premiere, Offered Job On Spielberg Film By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2011 9:00 am EST James Curran (aka Slimjim Studios) made a great opening title sequence for Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin, and last week it earned the animator no small amount of new fans. One of those fans was evidently Steven Spielberg, who invited Curran to the premiere of Tintin this past weekend, and offered him a job....

BAFTA Winners: ‘The King’s Speech’ Scores Big; David Fincher Wins Best Director By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2011 8:58 pm EST The basic breakdown is that The King’s Speech was the big winner with seven awards in total, taking the Best Film and Outstanding British Film categories as well as acting nods for Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush. David Fincher won Best Director for The Social Network, and Inception took quite a few technical awards....

Bradley Cooper Offered Role In Derek Cianfrance’s ‘The Place Beyond The Pines’ By Russ Fischer/May 5, 2011 5:00 pm EST Well, well, Bradley Cooper really is everywhere today. There’s the possibility that he’ll play Lucifer in Paradise Lost, and a report that The Hangover, Part II is going to be huge. (Duh.) But this is the interesting part: Derek Cianfrance is putting together a film called The Place Beyond the Pines — we first heard about this last year — which will bring him back to set with his Blue Valentine star Ryan Gosling....

Catherine Hardwicke’s Adaptation Of James Patterson’s Maximum Ride May Move To Universal By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2010 6:01 pm EST The process by which certain properties become movies can be a long, strange one. James Patterson’s series Maximum Ride (which starts with the novel Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment) was optioned by Columbia and has been in development for the past year at the studio. But Columbia just put the project into turnaround, meaning another studio can step in and pick it up, and now Universal is poised to do just that....

Christian Bale Won’t Be Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah;’ Michael Fassbender Next In Line? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 30, 2011 2:00 pm EST With Bale set to do two Malick films in 2012, however, he’s well out of the running for Noah. There is a very good second choice on the horizon, however: Michael Fassbender, who despite being one of the most wanted actors around right now, has a relatively open schedule for 2012....

Christopher Nolan’s Third Batman Film Will Be Titled ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ And Will NOT Feature The Riddler By David Chen/Oct. 27, 2010 6:59 am EST In an interview published minutes ago, director Christopher Nolan revealed that the title of the third Batman film will be The Dark Knight Rises. He also gave scant details about the plot and direction of the third film. Hit the jump to find out what (little) we know....

Cool Stuff: Movie Barcodes Reduce Your Favorite Films To Color Strips By Russ Fischer/March 3, 2011 10:00 am EST Here’s something that could just be a footnote in the story of how technology helps us view movies differently, but it is a neat little footnote. MovieBarcode is a Tumblr that presents films reduced to pure color. Each ‘barcode’ on the site features every frame of a given film vertically stretched and then assembled into something that looks like a barcode....

Cool Stuff: Terminator T-800 Endoskeleton Life-Size Figure By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 7, 2010 2:00 pm EST Some of the items we feature in Cool Stuff are so expensive, we’re not sure who can actually afford them. This is one of those items. Sideshow Collectibles has put up for preorder version 2.0 of their life-size Terminator T-800 Endoskeleton. From the sci-fi classic ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day’, Sideshow Collectibles is proud to bring Terminator collectors the T-800 Endoskeleton – Version 2....

By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2010 9:50 am EST So: no Oscar possibilities for Malick’s movie this year, but that’s not really a worry to anyone but Oscar pundits. I’m just happy that we’ve got real, reliable word that the film will actually see release. This could also mean the effective end of Apparition, which laid off most of the rest of its staff this week. (Remember a year ago, when Apparition seemed like it might be a viable new force on the indie scene?...

John Cameron Mitchell Writing ‘Hedwig And The Angry Inch’ Sequel; Let’s Hope For A Film Version By Russ Fischer/July 27, 2012 12:30 pm EST Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a remarkable piece of work. The brainchild of writer/actor/director John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, the play and film it spawned are a whirlwind of romance, longing and sexual politics all presented as a glam rock musical. I never caught the stage version, and put off seeing the film for some time, but when I finally caught the film I realized I had been very dumb for sleeping on it....

Justin Lin Buys Screen Rights To David Henry Hwang’s Play ‘Chinglish’ By Russ Fischer/April 25, 2012 10:30 am EST Years ago, Justin Lin looked like he might be a new voice for the Asian-American film community when he made a splash with his debut film Better Luck Tomorrow. After that film, Lin didn’t restrict himself to making films specific to the Asian experience and instead became a voice for the much more broad mainstream movie community, as he took on the Fast and Furious franchise, and is currently slated to make his fourth entry in that series, with Fast Six....